My more general takeaway is that worryingly many humans are cognitively set up to fall for an authoritarian even in a modern western cultural context
I think maybe the “even” in this sentence is backwards. The modern context of tribal polarization and filter-bubbles makes people more likely to fall for authoritarians than many other contexts. (Though I still think that the western cultural context is more robust to authoritarianism than, say, North Korea.)
I think maybe the “even” in this sentence is backwards. The modern context of tribal polarization and filter-bubbles makes people more likely to fall for authoritarians than many other contexts. (Though I still think that the western cultural context is more robust to authoritarianism than, say, North Korea.)